LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2325, 5 December 1914, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Tho postal authorities advise thatf the s.b. Riverina, which, sailed from; Sydney for Auckland at noon on December, 3, is bringing Australian mails only. The Wellington portion is due per the 6.26 a.m. Main Trunk train' on Tuesday. , Four young men named Wm. • Lloyd Evans (Wales), George Thomson. Broini (Scotland), Earle Ebert (U.S.A.), and i-Nathan Murphy (U.S.A.), who endeavoured to get free transport from San Francisco to Wellington by the b.s. Marama, appeared at the Magistrate's Court yesterday, charged with being stowaways. \Thej all pleaded guilty. Inspector Hendrey said that the combined capital of the four was Is. 3d., and the fares would have amounted to £16 each. A conviction was entered in. each case, and fines of £5 imposed, in dofaiuit one month's imprisonment. .Since November 5, when the 'Belgian Consul (the Hon.Chas. Johnston) forwarded the sum of £7880 to the Belgian Legation in London for the relief of the distressed, a further sum of £2500 has been cabled to tho same authority. The London "Daily Mail" of October 23 contains a picture of fifteen Britiso' prisoners in gaol in Berlin and their warder. 'Wellington people will be interested to know that one of the fifteen is Mr. Horace Hunt, the well-known. ■Wellington pianist, who was perfecting his pianoforte studies in' Berlin when war broke out. In speaking to a motion to increase the subscriptions to the Wellington Education Institute, Mr. W. W. Rountrce (secretary) stated at last evening's meeting that the time had arrived when they should look forward to having a room' of their own and a teachers'library. There was now no place wherei teachers could consult works on education. There were one or two works to be seen here and there, but when methods of education were being altered every year there should be a library well, stocked with books on education in order to keep them up-to-date. Various members spoke favouring the suggestion, and Miss Myers said that if the balance of the money thafc would accrue from the raising of subscriptions were made a nucleus of a fund for the achievement of such a purpose some members might be prepared to make donations. '

To-day ths men in camp at will be given a "Christinas dinner, "•■ and in the afternoon a sports meeting, will be held. The public are invited" to attend. ■ Bank of England "fivers' , are gener-. ally changeable without difficulty, Inif the Rev. A. 11. Johnson stated last evening that when'he was in. a certain town in England recently he was quite unable to change a £5 note issued by that famous banking institution. The , difficulty did not long endure, but it . made him realise oue of the inconveniencee of war. When theMamari, which arrived here yesterday afternoon, left London she had 310 passengers, all of the one class. None of these were for Cape Town, l but at that port another seven pas-, sengers were picked up. At Hobarti sixteen passengers disembarked, and' four were brought on. Of the total number of passengers, 133 were assisted immigrants, and of that number, there were twenty-seven female' domestic servants who came out in charge o£ Misses Cole and Jackson. The passengers generally are a good class. Under instructions, from the Admiralty authorities, the Shaw, Savill, and Albion Company's steamer Mamari steered a good deal west of her usual course until well south of the Line. This divergence added between 600 and. 700 knots to the course traversed, and practically'added a couple of days to the voyage. The steamer was over-' hauled by a couple of French cruisers off TJshant, but other than that the) voyage was quite uneventful. A further effort is ' being made by the children''attending the Mount Cook Schools to augment the Belgian Distress / Fund by Holding a fete at the Girls' School on Wednesday, December 9, and the commltteo has granted the children a holiday for that, day* ,

The condition of the men Cashmore, . who was seriously injured in the shunting accident in Thorndon railway yards on Wednesday last, was reported from the Hospital last night to have 6hown a slight improvement. ■ The Bible-in-State-Schools League has promoted for the third year in succession the observance of to-morrow as Sunday. The observance is being made throughout the whole Dominion, Anglican, Presbyterian, ' Methodist, and Lutheran Churches, with the Salvation Army taking part as well as some Congregational churches and churches of-the Church of Christ. ■ ' , , "What might havo been; what merely was," was touched on lightly by the Rev. A. M. Johnson last evening at I the welcome homo tendered him. It was due in a great measure to tho skilful generalship of ihe captain of Sie Indra-'. barah, on which he travelled, said Mr. Johnson, that they had. got 6afe!y through on their voyage from England to Now Zealand. When vessels giving familiar names called them, up on the wireless, and asked who and wherethey, were, their skipper shrewdly answored,, "Nothing doing. ,. Other vessel's had■■•'. heeded such calls; other vessels had; tone down. The Indrabarah'e Captain ad brought thorn through safely, and* when they thought of what might have been, and nearly was, they were thankful indeed.

A grand concert is to be given by, the pupils attending the Marist Broe. School, Tasman Street, in the Grand Opoi-a House on December 15 in aid of tho Belgian Relief Fund. Her Excellency the Countess of Liverpool has eignified her intention of being present. A man was arrested by Detective Andrews yesterday on a charge of desert" ing his wife at Tiniaro. At the public meeting held under the auspices of the New Zealand Moderate League on Thursday night, a picture was auctioned at the request of the Rose-, noath Belgian Relief Committee. Mr," J. B. Harcourt officiated as auctioneer, and the pichire was knocked down to several purchasers* who promptly put it up again. As a final result the picture netted £22 to the Belgian Fund, andi was handed back by the'last purchaser to tho Roseneath Committee. The picture, which is being sold in connection with the Roseneath School Patriotic Garden Fete on December 12, was subsequently bought privately by Mr. Walter Tripe for £5 ss.,_and handed back to tho committee for further use. Buy a 7 o'clock razor from Kirkcaldio and Stains, Ltd. Price, with sis blades, 13s. 6d., and for 7d. extra the makers will send , without further charge a similar set to any soldier or sailor at the front or en route or in barracks.—Advt.

JHJs Excellency the Governor (Lord Liverpool) visited the. Maori contingent's camp at Avondale on Wednesday. Addressing the men, he said tliat fie •considered them a fine body, and was very pleased with them. Ho added that it was difficult for him to leave "Wellington just now, and that he had taken the only chance of going north to fcee them. A garden party and sale of work, tinder the auspices of the Presbyterian p Women's Mission Union, will be held in the grounds of Mrs. John Kirkcaldie's residence, Thompson Street, this afternoon, commencing at 3 o'clock. The entire, proceeds will go to augment the Home Missions Fund. Should the weather be unfavourable the function ■will be held in the schoolroom attached . to St. John's Church, Willis Street. , The total amount raised by the Mount Cook School for the "Uncle Tom" Belgian Distress Fund was £52 lis. Bd. ...... 1 Two model workers' cottages, manufactured by the S. S. .Williams Company, Ltd., are now on view; one in . iWillis Street, in the show window" of the Sartorial Service, Ltd.,' and the otfoer in the ' Anglo-American Music Stores, in Cuba Street. The models . were made to the order of the New Zealand Government (Labour Department) and are intended ror the Panama Exposition, The usual monthly meeting of, the Mount Cook School Committee was held on Tuesday evening last. The capitation returns showed an average attendance of 879 children ■ for last oaarter. The treasurer reported that the committee would close the year with a small credit balance.